Chrome extension

AI Search Revealer

See AI's hidden searches

ChatGPT says it searched the web. It never says what for. This extension shows you the exact queries ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini run, and the sources they actually cited.

Download for Chrome View source on GitHub

AI Search Revealer panel next to a ChatGPT answer, showing the query ChatGPT ran and its 6 cited and 22 retrieved sources — One ChatGPT answer: the search it ran behind the scenes, the 6 sources it cited, and the 22 it retrieved.

What it shows you

The real queries

Every search the model runs, captured live as it's issued. Read from the network response, not the model's memory of what it did.

Cited vs retrieved

Sources split into ★ Cited and Retrieved, with snippets where the platform provides them.

Filter and export

Filter by platform, intent or text. Export to CSV or Markdown.

Verify in one click

Open any query in Google or Google Trends, or copy it to your clipboard.

Survives a refresh

Captures are saved per conversation, locally in your browser.

Stays out of the way

Overlay panel that minimises to a bubble. Toggle it off from the toolbar.

Works on

ChatGPTchatgpt.com
Claudeclaude.ai
Geminigemini.google.com

Private by design

Runs entirely in your browser. No account, no server, no analytics. It never reads your prompts or the answers, only search queries and source URLs. The one automatic outbound request sends a source's hostname to Google's favicon service to show its icon.

Install in a minute

Download ai-search-revealer.zip and unzip it.
Open chrome://extensions in Chrome.
Turn on Developer mode (top right).
Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.

Then open ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask something that needs a web search.

Questions

Why not just use Chrome DevTools?

DevTools shows the same data as raw, unlabelled JSON mixed in with hundreds of unrelated requests. AI Search Revealer organises it per platform and per query, with sources already split into cited and retrieved.

Why not ask the model what it searched for?

The model answers from memory and can paraphrase or misremember its own actions. The extension reads the actual network response, so you see what really happened.

Does it see my prompts or answers?

No. It only extracts search queries and source URLs from the assistant's own network responses. Everything runs locally: no account, no server, no analytics.

Is it free?

Yes. The source is public on GitHub.

Independent utility, not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.